Evener.



R. J. PAUL.

EVBNER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 31, 1914.

1,109,868. Pa nted ept. 8, 1914.

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i 1 Be it known thatl, Roennr PAUL, a

citialen of the United Statesnresiding at Gilmaii, in the county of Marshalland State of lowa,have invented a certain :new and usefuljEvener, of which the following is a specificatiomw a g y I w The object of my inventionis to provide a fiVGvllOlSG evener especially designed as a long draw bar for a multiple sectionharrow. It is especially my object to provide a I draw bar evenerlof simple, durable andinexpensive construction so? constructed that" i pointsjof attachmentmaybe provided close hers to the draw barwfortheevenersfor threend two-horseteams respectively, and

-also so constructed as to give each of the 1 tions attached thereto andi with three-horse eye'ncrs separate Rpoints of connection with the eyeners is prevented.

Myfiinventionconsistsinrcertain details,

thet construction, arrangementand combinationof the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in a ftlie accompanying Zdrawings, in:which the figurerepresents a planview of my evener for harrows witha plurality; ofharrow secand ytwo-horse ,eveners L secured to the draw Intthei accompanying drawings, Ihaye used the reference numeral 1 10 to indicate generally a drawbar which may be made Yof any; suitable material. Harrow sections 12, may be secured to the draw bar 10 by distance from the arm 15, on the side oppojsiteflthe arm 13, iskfixed a forwardly extend ting arm 16 in which is mounted a ro11er17 shownbythe dotted lines.

Pivoted to the bar 10,

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thefdraw whereby too great swinging movement of :thewd raw bar with relation to about five feetv AU i a a we e 6121 3 14 g i I Appncatmmedium? s msia'fsa a i from the arm 16 andfbetween saidfarin and? the nearest end of the bar was a link 18.

Pivoted to the barfilO between thearinflii n sevenand one halffeet from thefiarm lfiis andtheother end of the! said bar, andahoutl a similar link 20. Securedto tlielinkslS i and 201 are rings 19, Secured tothej ring 19,; of thewl1nk18 is a chain 21ywhich.is lextendedaroundthe roller 17 andis scour tothe outer forward end oiiuthe arm 15. Secured tothering 19 oftheilink 20 is a chainiQQ 3 extended around the, roller 141- and secured a to the arm 15-and the pivotal pointof "said arm isj one halfgreater than the distance 1 between where the chains 22 and 21 jare cured to said armf15. For example, the

distance from A tovB is three fifths iof, a foot! and the distance from A to G, two

fifthsofa foot. '1 There is secured an ordinary three-horse Q evener 23 to the ring 19 on the flinkwEO and j an ordinary two-horse evener. 24- to the ring 19 on the link 18. Itwill beseenthat the draft is then properly equalized for permit;

ting the two horses to draw two fifths ofa a load 1 and thethree might be flexible devicesif desiredandthat horses to draw three the link 20 is somewhatlongerthanftheglink 18zfor,the simple reason that the rin er) are designed in operation to besubstantially midway between the pivotalfpjoints of the links and the nearest adjacent forwardlyy extending ar1ns 13and 16 respectively.

improved eveneris designed especially for harrows and has the advantage of securing the eveners 2e, and 23 to diiferent points on the drawbar and also for securing them close to the draw bar and at the same time equalizing the draft properlyY I One of the diflicultiesin dragging aim- 1 row is that with ordinary eveners,the horses are too from the harrow and onmalring turns, or one end ofthe harrO Str kesQan a n ;lobstruction, the harrow sags and swings widely:

Onaccount of the fact that the f jf and 20 are securedwelltoward the end :of y the bar 10, and theffurther fact mamas a I claim as my invention:

1. In a device of the class described, an evener bar designed to be attached to a plurality of harrow sections, a forwardly extending arm at the center thereof, links pivoted to said evener bar at points spaced apart from the center thereof, a forwardly extending arm pivoted to said bar spaced apart from said first arm at a distance equal to one sixth of the distance between said arm and one of said links, a second forwardly extending arm secured to the bar at a similar distance from said pivoted arm on the side nearest the adjacent link, flexible devices secured to the links slidably extended through the nearest respective fixed forwardly extending arms and secured to said pivoted arm at points distant from the pivotal point of said arm in the proportion of three and five.

2. In a device of the class described, a bar, means for securing harrow sections thereto, a forwardly extending arm pivoted thereto at one side of the center thereof, draft devices secured thereto at points equidistant from the ends thereof, and longer and shorter flexible draft devices secured to the respective first devices on the long and short ends of, the bar, said flexible devices being slidably mounted on said bar at points on each side of said arm and equidistant therefrom, and secured to said arm at such points that the distance from the point where the shorter flexible device is attached to the bar, from the point where the longer flexible device is secured to the bar, bears the same relation to the distance of the latter point from the pivotal point of the bar that the burden of draft, designed to be drawn from Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents,

the shorter flexible draft device, bears to the burden of draft, designed to be drawn to the longer flexible device.

3. In a device of the class described, a bar, means for securing harrow sections thereto, a forwardly extending arm pivoted thereto at one side of the center thereof, draft de vices secured thereto at points equidistant from the ends thereof, and longer and shorter flexible draft devices securedeto the respective first devices on the long and short ends of the bar, said flexible devices being slidably mounted on said bar at points on each side of said arm and equidistant therefrom, one of said points being at the middle of the bar, and secured to said arm at such points that the distance from the point where the shorter flexible device is attached to the bar, from the'point where the longer flexible device is secured to the bar, bears the same relation to the distance of the latter point from the pivotal point of the bar that the burden of draft, designed to be drawn from the shorter flexible draft device bears to the burden of draft designed to be drawn to the longer flexible device, said parts being arranged so that the ROBERT J. PAUL.

WVitnesses:

WV. W. IMLER, J L. PAUL.

Washington, I). G. 

